There are not many blogs out there dedicated to cooking on a pellet smoker. I have been cooking, grilling & smoking over 35 yrs now. I recently bought a Traeger Lil Tex Elite pellet smoker & have cooked on it over six yrs. now. I would like to share recipes & info I have gained from cooking on it.
Update 2014: I have plenty of recipes here for the pellet smoker so I am now including other outdoor cooking and some of my indoor cooking too.

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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Skillet Burger & Gravy, Roasted Potatoes & Carrots

Dec 08 2016

I sure messed up getting the pics of tonight’s cook. When I
served the wife I said I forgot to get pics of the potato and carrot dishes.
After downloading my pics I saw I also did not have a pic of the skillet full
of gravy!

This is pretty easy to make and tastes good too. I had a
pound of ground chuck and made up 4 patties. I seasoned them with a little
McCormick’s gourmet burger seasoning. My sides were roasted baby Dutch potatoes
and baby carrots. I made just enough for tonight’s meal. I added butter to the dishes,
some garlic salt on both and a little Mirin on the carrots. They went in the
microwave 1.5 minutes to melt the butter and stirred to coat. They went in a
350 deg. oven covered for an hour.

When they were in I made a batch of Pioneer Country Gravy
and heated the skillet to do the burgers. I sprayed in some olive oil and did
the burgers about 4 minutes per side. I removed them to a plate and took off
most of the grease then added a handful of chopped onions. I added the burgers
back in on top of the onions. They would help hold them off the bottom. I added
the 2 cups of gravy and as soon as it was all bubbly I turned it down to a
simmer.

I removed the covers on the veggies and stirred, the last 25
minutes were uncovered and stirred a couple of times. After I added the gravy
the burgers went another 20 minutes partially covered. We had are usual toasted
English muffins with the meal.

Even though I didn’t get as many pics as I wanted I did get
a pic of the wife’s plate before I put some gravy over her potatoes. She doesn’t
need her potatoes all smashed up like I do so I get plenty of potato gravy
ratio!

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I started cooking when our children were in highschool & my wife worked.I was layed off during the summer & just kinda took over the kitchen & my wife does most all the cleanup. We are both retired now. I am a recipe hound, love to try new things. I suppose my cooking methods have evolved from Mid West Ohio, Southern, Soul, Cajun, Creole, & German, all of which I love.